David Sheen ☩

Clerk in Holy Orders | Chaplain & Fellow BNC, Oxford | DPhil Candidate in Theology: 19C American Church History | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | Runner | New account.

[Capel Lofft @CapelLofft]

I agree with this. The last Prime Minister who gained and then lost power because of a General Election was Ted Heath in 1970-74. I think the British people are pretty used to parties in government changing leaders, and therefore Prime Minister, without an election.

[Plough Quarterly @Plough]

“As a writer of faith living in a secular age, Berry’s poems bridge the gap between our modern, secular experience of time and older views of time, such as Augustine’s, that are more imbued with the sacred.” —Anne Ryan

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[David Sheen ☩ @cappellanus]

Contemporary icon ‘The Holy Trinity’ (2016) by the Ukrainian artist and iconographer Ivanka Demchuk (https://t.co/GfsfgbCVlQ).

#TrinitySunday

[ThinkingFaith @ThinkingFaith]

‘The name we give to God, The Trinity, marks the depth and height of the Christian knowledge and experience of who God is.’ Happy Trinity Sunday! https://t.co/f2rBwMaqLU

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.

[The Church of England @churchofengland]

"It's a place about Christ, about God coming close to us."

Every May, the National Pilgrimage to The Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham is held. @FideliumLondon, a network of young anglo-catholic Christians in London explain why it is such a significant place.

#PilgrimPlaces

[Capel Lofft @CapelLofft]

Happy Oak Apple Day! May all the grisly and heretical Puritan interludes of your life end with the happy Restoration of days of cavalier merriment, risqué stage frolics, and High Church rectitude!

[The Church of England @churchofengland]

Today is the feast day of St Augustine of Canterbury.

Augustine was sent from Rome to England by Pope Gregory the Great, to re-establish Christianity among the Anglo-Saxons. He later became the first Archbishop of Canterbury.

📍 St John the Evangelist, Cowley/Lawrence OP

[David Sheen ☩ @cappellanus]

@WalkerMarcus How splendid. I look forward to attending once full term is over.

[Madeleine Davies @MadsDavies]

I like the Encyclical's message that human weakness & limits are not "errors to be corrected".
"No one can single-handedly bear the weight of the challenges the world is facing, just as no one is so weak that they cannot play their part, for 'power is made perfect in weakness'."

[Richard Chapman @SelsdonChapman]

The Archbishop of Canterbury will host a Lords debate on "the impact of AI on human relationships & society", on 5 June. This will also provide Parliament with an extended opportunity to discuss the Pope's encyclical.

[David Sheen ☩ @cappellanus]

Sonny Rollins, one of the greatest jazz saxophonists of all time, has died aged 95. https://t.co/TALoN0BxVi

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

In the era of #ArtificialIntelligence, when human dignity is threatened by new forms of dehumanization, ours is the pressing duty to remain profoundly human. We must lovingly safeguard the grandeur of humanity bestowed upon us and revealed in its fullness in Christ, the splendor of which no machine can ever replace. #MagnificaHumanitas
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[Marcus Walker @WalkerMarcus]

Sorry HMRC rules that serving as a British Army Reservist counts as a ‘break’ from work and therefore penalises you?

The question here isn’t just that it’s wrong and should be overturned. It’s that someone made that ruling and is probably still a civil servant.

[Eleanor Parker @ClerkofOxford]

Whitsuntide, the days after Pentecost, was for centuries *the* time of the year for holiday-making and summer fun - fairs, plays, games, and parades. It's the reason we have a Bank Holiday in late May, which this year falls nicely on Whit Monday itself. https://t.co/x0bWsxlw3j

[The Prayer Book Society @prayerbook_soc]

Today on #Whitsunday we give thanks for the coming of the Holy Spirit. Come Holy Ghost, our souls inspire - teach us, comfort us, guide us and lead us to follow where Christ has gone before!

Let us know if you've used the Spirit-filled words of the Collect for Whitsunday today!

[maddie @madsssagascar]

if someone ran a marathon and someone else drove 26 miles i wouldnt congratulate the driver just because he ended up at the destination

[Learn Latin @latinedisce]

Refectionem spero — “I hope for restoration.”

[David Sheen ☩ @cappellanus]

A splendid evening @ssh_oxford. Many thanks to the Principal Fr Harri Williams for the kind invitation to Evensong, Drinks, & Dinner at the House. Great to catch up with Fr Hamer. A lively community.